A case in point is [Clive Sinclair]’s C5 electric vehicle from 1985 ... but it was doomed from the start. It isn’t a car. In fact, it is more like a bicycle with a battery.

What you're looking at is a 1985 photo of the Sinclair C5, a titchy electrically motivated trike of which 12,000(!) were reportedly sold. We stumbled across this gem of an image, and after your ...

The Apple Newton and Etch-a-Sketch were mentioned but at Number 10 was the Sinclair C5. About 12,000 of these 3-wheeled electrified shopping carts were built in 1985. Before the year's end the ...

A case in point is [Clive Sinclair]’s C5 electric vehicle from 1985 ... but it was doomed from the start. It isn’t a car. In fact, it is more like a bicycle with a battery.

Compact and lightweight it was neither car nor bicycle but an entirely new form of personal transport. The Sinclair C5, as it ...

Why did 'ahead of its time' Sinclair C5 fail to succeed?Why did 'ahead of its time' Sinclair C5 fail to succeed?

These C5 vehicles were assembled at the Hoover factory in Merthyr Tydfil.Sir Clive Sinclair's short-lived experiment in personal transport dates from 1985, and these C5 vehicles were assembled at ...